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Group Therapy primary purpose - correct answer ✔✔The primary purpose of group therapy is
to facilitate changes by the patient to address identified problems.
A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other participants in a
group during therapy - correct answer ✔✔make an observation about the group's silence and
invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - correct answer ✔✔During group members sharing
methods they personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - correct answer ✔✔consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream
survey. The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to increase
the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors.
Attachment - correct answer ✔✔Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal
relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one
primary caregiver.
Mileu - correct answer ✔✔Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social,
economic, and cultural status.
Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference - correct answer
✔✔Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-
body interactions.
,Beck - correct answer ✔✔Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept
that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
depression can be understood via schemas: - correct answer ✔✔Beck;
cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency toward
interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the future).
Beck assumption - correct answer ✔✔Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior
(symptoms)
Ellis - correct answer ✔✔RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - correct answer ✔✔unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The
purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active, philosophical,
confrontational therapy.
RET assumption - correct answer ✔✔People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a
desire or preference into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they become based
on their beliefs).
Skinner - correct answer ✔✔operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - correct answer ✔✔voluntary behaviors are learned through
consequences, and behavioral responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a
behavior to occur more frequently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative
reinforcement- removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
, Skinner - correct answer ✔✔Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases behavior
by withholding a reward that has become habitual. Teachers employ this strategy in the
classroom when they ignore acting-out behavior that had previously been rewarded by more
attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or replacing behaviors.
Behavior management and modification programs based on his principles have shown to be
successful in altering targeted behaviors. Programmed learning and token economies represent
extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learning. Behavioral methods are particularly effective with
children, adolescents, and individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
Universality - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: The recognition of shared experiences and feelings
among group members and that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves
to remove a group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise self-
esteem.
Altruism - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: The group is a place where members can help each other,
and the experience of being able to give something to another person can lift the member's self
esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.
Instillation of hope - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: In a mixed group that has members at various
stages of development or recovery, a member can be inspired and encouraged by another
member who has overcome the problems with which they are still struggling.
Imparting information - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: While this is not strictly speaking a
psychotherapeutic process, members often report that it has been very helpful to learn factual
information from other members in the group, for example, about their treatment or about
access to services.
Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: Members
often unconsciously identify the group therapist and other group members with their own
parents and siblings in a process that is a form of transference specific to group psychotherapy.
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Group Therapy primary purpose - correct answer ✔✔The primary purpose of group therapy is
to facilitate changes by the patient to address identified problems.
A technique for dealing with an over talkative client and silence from other participants in a
group during therapy - correct answer ✔✔make an observation about the group's silence and
invite the others to comment
the technique of "Information Giver". - correct answer ✔✔During group members sharing
methods they personally use for dealing with problems
CBT - correct answer ✔✔consists of active questioning, homework assignments, and dream
survey. The therapist helps the patient consider personal ideas and beliefs in order to increase
the patient's realization about how thoughts influence behaviors.
Attachment - correct answer ✔✔Attempts to explain the dynamics of interpersonal
relationships between humans. A child needs to form a relationship between at least one
primary caregiver.
Mileu - correct answer ✔✔Milieu therapy requires consideration of the client's social,
economic, and cultural status.
Complementary Alternative Medicine vs Western major difference - correct answer
✔✔Western medicine focuses on what is done to the patient whereas CAM focuses on mind-
body interactions.
,Beck - correct answer ✔✔Beck developed the cognitive model of depression and the concept
that cognitive processing distortions underlie psychological disorders
ACTIVE, TIME-LIMITED APPROACH
depression can be understood via schemas: - correct answer ✔✔Beck;
cognitive errors, and the cognitive triad (i.e., negative views of self, tendency toward
interpreting experiences in a negative manner, and holding negative views of the future).
Beck assumption - correct answer ✔✔Distorted thinking contributes to and maintains bheavior
(symptoms)
Ellis - correct answer ✔✔RET (Rational Emotive Therapy) a form of cbt
ret - correct answer ✔✔unrealistic and irrational beliefs cause many emotional problems. The
purpose of RET is to identify an irrational belief and dispute it through active, philosophical,
confrontational therapy.
RET assumption - correct answer ✔✔People make themselves sick anytime they escalate a
desire or preference into a demand or absolute must. (People become who they become based
on their beliefs).
Skinner - correct answer ✔✔operant conditioning
Operant conditioning - correct answer ✔✔voluntary behaviors are learned through
consequences, and behavioral responses are elicited through reinforcement, which causes a
behavior to occur more frequently. Positive reinforcement- getting a gift, or negative
reinforcement- removal of objectionable' or aversive stimulus
, Skinner - correct answer ✔✔Absence of reinforcement, or extinction, also decreases behavior
by withholding a reward that has become habitual. Teachers employ this strategy in the
classroom when they ignore acting-out behavior that had previously been rewarded by more
attention.
Skinner's behavior model provides a concrete method for modifying or replacing behaviors.
Behavior management and modification programs based on his principles have shown to be
successful in altering targeted behaviors. Programmed learning and token economies represent
extensions of Skinner's thoughts on learning. Behavioral methods are particularly effective with
children, adolescents, and individuals with many forms of chronic mental illness.
Universality - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: The recognition of shared experiences and feelings
among group members and that these may be widespread or universal human concerns, serves
to remove a group member's sense of isolation, validate their experiences, and raise self-
esteem.
Altruism - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: The group is a place where members can help each other,
and the experience of being able to give something to another person can lift the member's self
esteem and help develop more adaptive coping styles and interpersonal skills.
Instillation of hope - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: In a mixed group that has members at various
stages of development or recovery, a member can be inspired and encouraged by another
member who has overcome the problems with which they are still struggling.
Imparting information - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: While this is not strictly speaking a
psychotherapeutic process, members often report that it has been very helpful to learn factual
information from other members in the group, for example, about their treatment or about
access to services.
Corrective recapitulation of primary family experience - correct answer ✔✔Yaslom: Members
often unconsciously identify the group therapist and other group members with their own
parents and siblings in a process that is a form of transference specific to group psychotherapy.
